Matthew 5:48

5:48 So then, be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. ¹ 

Matthew 14:5

14:5 Although ²  Herod ³  wanted to kill John, ⁴  he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.

Matthew 19:19

19:19 honor your father and mother, ⁵  and love your neighbor as yourself.” ⁶ 

Matthew 22:39

22:39 The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁷ 

Matthew 27:65

27:65 Pilate said to them, “Take ⁸  a guard of soldiers. Go and make it as secure as you can.”

Matthew 28:4

28:4 The ⁹  guards were shaken and became like dead men because they were so afraid of him.

[5:48]  ¹ sn This remark echoes the more common OT statements like Lev 19:2 or Deut 18:13: “you must be holy as I am holy.”

[14:5]  ² tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[14:5]  ³ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Herod) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:5]  ⁴ tn Grk “him” (also in the following phrase, Grk “accepted him”); in both cases the referent (John) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:19]  ³ sn A quotation from Exod 20:12-16; Deut 5:16-20.

[19:19]  ⁴ sn A quotation from Lev 19:18.

[22:39]  ⁴ sn A quotation from Lev 19:18.

[27:65]  ⁵ tn Grk “You have a guard.”

[28:4]  ⁶ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.